春秋城邦社会特征简论

Characteristics of the city-state in Spring and Autumn period

春秋时代的中国社会是一个城邦社会。中国古代的城邦有其自身的特征,目前学界的分歧主要源于是否以希腊城邦为标准及其对城邦涵义理解的差异。中国春秋时代的城邦具有自身的特殊性,其既具有希腊城邦社会的一些特征,又有基于春秋社会现实的地域构成、社会阶层方面的特点。

In recent years there are different arguments concerning how to define a city-state in academia and these different arguments were mainly about whether the city-state of Greece should be taken as the standard and how to understand the concept of a city-state. China was a city-state in Spring and Autumn period, which shared some features with that of Greece, but had some special characteristics of its own. These characteristics reflect some aspects of the social organizations and formation of social classes in the Spring and Autumn period.